Aerospace, 2022 This paper investigates the issue of balance control for reaction-wheeled inverted pendulum-type Cubli Rovers on asteroids, and an adaptive control scheme is proposed via the prescribed performance control technique.
He Huang +5 more
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Thermography of Asteroid and Future Applications in Space Missions
Applied Sciences, 2020 The Near-Earth Asteroid 162173 Ryugu is a C-type asteroid which preserves information about the ancient Solar System and is considered enriched in volatiles such as water and organics associated with the building blocks of life, and it is a potentially ...
Tatsuaki Okada
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Organic Matter in the Asteroid Ryugu: What We Know So Far
Life, 2023 The Hayabusa2 mission was tasked with returning samples from the C-complex asteroid Ryugu (1999 JU3), in order to shed light on the formation, evolution and composition of such asteroids.
Christian Potiszil +8 more
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GeosciencesThe Hayabusa2 space mission recently retrieved 5.4 g of material from asteroid Ryugu, providing the first direct access to pristine material from a carbonaceous asteroid. This study employs a novel combination of non-invasive synchrotron X-ray techniques
Paul Northrup +8 more
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Asteroid taxonomic signatures from photometric phase curves
, 2012 We explore the correlation between an asteroid's taxonomy and photometric phase curve using the H, G12 photometric phase function, with the shape of the phase function described by the single parameter G12.
Antti Penttilä +40 more
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Design of a Formation of Solar Pumped Lasers for Asteroid Deflection [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents the design of a multi-spacecraft system for the deflection of asteroids. Each spacecraft is equipped with a fibre laser and a solar concentrator. The laser induces the sublimation of a portion of the surface of the asteroid.
Christie Alisa Maddock +23 more
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Mirror formation control in the vicinity of an asteroid [PDF]
, 2008 Two strategies are presented for the positioning and control of a spacecraft formation designed to focus sunlight onto a point on the surface of asteroid, thereby sublimating the material and ejecting debris creating thrust.
Battin R. H. +11 more
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Carbon Speciation and Solubility in Silicate Melts
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 179-194., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Natalia Solomatova +2 more
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AerospaceThe increasing need for autonomy in space exploration missions is becoming more and more relevant in the design of missions to small bodies. The long communication latencies and sensitivity of the system to unplanned environmental perturbations mean ...
Pelayo Peñarroya +3 more
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Short-Term Consequences of Asteroid Impacts into the Ocean: A Portuguese Case Study
Universe, 2022 Asteroid impacts are a proven global threat, meaning that any location on Earth might be a subject to their consequences. Such collisions are not likely in any person’s lifetime, but their aftermath could be catastrophic.
Renato H. Morais +3 more
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